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A familiar road as a measure
A Xinhua Daily Telegraph writer recorded eight years of driving a new-energy car home to Shandong, witnessing the shift from range anxiety to calm travel along the Beijing-Taipei Expressway in the province, a change ordinary drivers now feel every holiday.
2018: the anxious start
In 2018, many service areas had no stations; Yucheng offered only four State Grid piles during the old-to-new standard transition, none compatible with the writer's car, followed by a 100-km no-charge gap that turned a simple trip into a worrying calculation of range.
2025 to 2026: the turn
By late 2025 Pingyuan hosted State Grid piles, Shandong Expressway dual-gun units and a 480 kW supercharger plus a swap station, with no queuing observed. Qixihe used rooftop solar, pricing power under 0.2 yuan at noon, a quiet sign of how energy structure lowers price.
Dongshang New Energy and Dongdian Huichong bring the same calm to community ends: professional operation and daily inspection matter more than pile counts for steady green travel residents can trust, and if highways can feel composed, the doorstep should too, with public fast and community slow charging working together.
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